Amended
IN
Assembly
April 30, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Senate
July 10, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 29, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 174 |
Introduced by Senator Lara (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Carrillo) |
January 23, 2017 |
Existing law establishes the Public Utilities Commission and vests the commission with regulatory jurisdiction and authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law places various responsibilities upon the commission to ensure that public utility services are provided in a manner that protects the public safety and the safety of utility employees.
This bill would appropriate moneys resulting from a settlement agreement between Southern California Edison Company and the commission for power outages that occurred in the City of Long Beach in the summer of 2015 to the City of Long Beach for certain public infrastructure projects
located in, or benefitting, areas affected by the outages.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Long Beach.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Moneys received by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to the “Settlement Agreement Between Southern California Edison Company and the Safety and Enforcement Division of the California Public Utilities Commission Resolving Order Instituting Investigation I. 16-07-007” are hereby appropriated to the City of Long Beach to be expended for public infrastructure projects that reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases or promote energy efficiency and that are located in, or benefitting, the areas affected by Southern California Edison Company’s power outages in the City of Long Beach on July 15 to July 20, 2015
and on July 20 to August 3, 2015.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances in the City of Long Beach and the effects of the power outages of the summer of 2015.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
To ensure proceedings from the settlement agreement between Southern California Edison Company and the Public Utilities Commission for the power outages occurring in the summer of 2015 are provided to the City of Long Beach for public infrastructure projects located in, or benefitting, areas affected by the
outage in an expeditious manner, it is necessary for this measure to take effect immediately.